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Re:Americans Losing Faith in College Degrees, Poll Finds by flukus on Friday September 08, 2017 @01:21AM (#15198054)
> But academia not only teaches you tested methods it also teaches you why you use them and how to determine which ones are best suited for a given situation.

IME academia absolutely does not teach that, most academics wouldn't know how to determine that. What tool to apply for a given situation is something I'd say is only learned with and can only be learned from industry experience.

For example, my day to day work would be much more pleasant of academia didn't go overboard making students create OO hierarchies for everything.

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Re:Americans Losing Faith in College Degrees, Poll Finds by AstralStorm on Friday September 08, 2017 @03:25AM (#15198451)
Also surprisingly with academic experience. Of course use of tools in academia is vastly different from one outside. Academia has less of a time pressure and less of a budget often (at least in Europe).

Cannot speak for non-STEM though.

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